Yes getting rid of open cheap public access to a sport that is hard to access. Great.

I love cycling and love bikes but this kind of thread has reminded me why I stopped visiting this place a long time ago.

I ride bikes and play golf and it’s a shame this is happening to a municipal course. There’s plenty of courses out there but not many easy and cheap to access ones.

They’re both getting people outdoors at the end of the day.

The difference in ETT length is the M/L is 56cm and the M is 54.5 – 1.5cm

Wouldn’t the M/L with a 100mm stem be the same length as a M with 115?

Dive bar: Formerly crow (was called the stoned crow) off washington square.

Music venue: Zinc bar – was in a tiny little dungeon with banging jazz – now moved to a slightly nicer place but far better than blue note etc.

Get tickets to the opera at the met – it is a hell of a place even if its not your scene.

Food:  Blue hill (next to stoned crow), completely amazing small restaurant.

Cafe Boulud: Upper east side old money people watching brilliance. (Fancy restaurant)

Broome Street bar always have a big pot of chilli bubbling away.

Go to Brooklyn and visit  Fette Sau if you like barbecue.

I went there for the first time a few weeks back – it is a spectacular place.

Things I’d recomend:

Table mountain cableway is a must do.

Drive to boulders beach and see the penguins.  When you get there you have two beaches, one with a boardwalk viewing area is much like a zoo (a nice zoo with only penguins) but if you carry on and get there early enough you can go on the actual beach with penguins swimming around you.

After boulders a local recommended to head north to Kalk bay which is very chilled out slightly bohemian small town and the harbor has seals around and they sometimes come out to the quay.

Visit Camps Bay and some of the other beaches, they’re beautiful and some have coastal pools with barbecues around them.

We went to the Lourensford market on Sunday at the Lourensford winery which is about an hour outside capetown which is super chilled, great wine and food.

In town there is the v&a waterfront which is an interesting place but a bit touristy, good markets though.

Oh and water wasn’t a problem in February.  You are definitely aware of the shortage but things were ok especially out of town where places were self sufficient.

I’m selling my old fly pantera on eBay at the moment. You would need cranks chain and wheels but it’s a great frame forks and kit. Full cromo.

Link

Not for the XC hubs- they predate the adapters unfortunately. A blind wheel builder – I get how that could be beneficial.

Thanks for the advice folks, I will give them all a bell later.

I had no idea cycle care were still up and running – I got my first “Proper bike” – a Marin Bear Valley from them back in 1991!

As long as they can copy and paste from wikipedia anything will do. That is the usual standard of work I have handed in to me each week for homework – and I am an ICT and computing teacher!

Don’t go confusing a debt with a deficit. Different things. You can’t really pay off a deficit, just reduce it or move into surplus but you are still borrowing like it or not.

I saw this yesterday and think it’s a film of two halves that falls apart in the second. I love the first 2 films and even think alien 3 is ok but this had me in stitches.

I mainly lost it when the captain stops and explains the entire plot and reason for the engineers being on the moon in 30 seconds which is impressive as he spent most of the time on the deck looking at nice 3d maps.

The other issues included no one mentioning, talking about or even alluding to having two crew die on the planet, the dr having to be flamed in front of everyone, mutant man coming back and refusing to die with super human powers not to mention Shaw assaulting two crew then running off and no one at all chasing her or trying to find her, then when she finds David and Weyland having a chat they are simply like “hey, well here we all are!” It’s like no one at all in the film seemed to notice anything at all that was going on.

And the 3x endings……..

Thanks, if I am super bold I would say that your track isn’t especially musical, there is little progression or movement in the “music” and the loop based nature shows through – and I say this as a lover of non musical dance music, down tempo mellowness and also as a grade 8 classical trained musician.

Not really my cup of “electronic tea” – musically it goes pretty much nowhere and is as has been said too long but for a first effort is good. Mixdown-wise, the base is muddy and is lost against the pad, it sounds like you have boosted some eq on it rather than cutting other sounds to give it space. Mixing is a fine art that I am happy to say I haven’t mastered myself but there is always much to learn.

Picky geek point – you have installed Live, ableton is the company not the software. I’ll get my coat and leave a link to
my soundcloud page.

Just to add, I no longer use Live that much for production but am happy to offer tips if you want any. For mixdown tips check out this guy. [/url]

Indeed fights did happen but did but the organisation is prolific and bullying takes on a far more systematic nature and it seriously affects pupil’s independence believe it or not.

As a teacher the mobile phone is the single biggest problem in my school (normal secondary comp – nice area). We have a no sight or sound policy and they are confiscated and only picked up by parents however they still use them, bully with them, organise fight with them, send inappropriate photos with them, have them stolen. It’s a nightmare. Believe it or not people managed to cope without them.

Except mongoose are about as uncool as you can get for BMX……

We’ve just got a nikon s9100 to sling in a pocket or bag for times when the slr is to clumpy. Having pretty much a 400mm lense (in 35mm terms) in such a small device is an eye opener (and that’s optical not digital zooming).

Should also plug my little bro’s new record label. He’s signed to a couple of other labels but decided it’s time to put out stuff on his own.

His label soubdcloud page is http://soundcloud.com/pret-a-ecouter

Old mix here:
http://soundcloud.com/ian-morbey/ian-morbey-unsung-anthems-november-2010-dj-mix

Available on beatport, juno and his older stuff is available on various other sites starting with i.

Wow zombie nation. Now that is absolute pop crap of the highest order!

Not all old school music is rubbish. I still love

Love this always works great as an early evening warm up track

Not house – not sure what it is, progressive breaks house? Awesome tune though and well worth listening to all the way through.

And finally in no way house – more like techno/edm but a classic piece of underworld remixed brilliantly

I don’t think techno and rave qualifies as house.

Agreed!

Have to say that some people have a very broad definition of house music

So what is house music? Originally it was called house because it was the type of music played at the warehouse in Chicago.

Maybe this will help everyone:

Dance music guide[/url]

Wow – there is some serious clinging on to the past here. Seriously some of this stuff I loved in the day but now just sounds pretty… well… naff!

I’ve been (don’t want to say clubbing) clubbing since 1995 and have danced around all sorts of places over the years and I can firmly say that music, clubs, production values have never been as good as they are now.

Thinking back to places like the hacienda which I was apparently lucky enough to go to before it shut the scene was just pretty rubbish really.

How about some sleazy down beat house:

or some more party music:

or even some quality deep house – saw James Teej at fabric in August and was awesome

Anyway, enjoy kids.

of course this is all subjective and tastes do seem to vary!

I live in Ivinghoe (top end of the Chilterns) and sold my bouncy bike and have a Dialled Prince Albert with 125mm at the front and think it’s spot on for round here. Would quite like a soul though…..

Build it, ride it. Facing is just one big con. Never had it done. Never had any bearing problems. Headset facing is hillarious!

Wow – i’ll email that to my 65 year old nob iof a father in law who is too old to do anything…. oh no I won’t. He doesn’t use a computer because he is too old and doesn’t have the confidence!

It certainly does and the myth that Britain no longer manufacrues anyting is just that – a myth. Our manufacturing output is bigger than France for example and we produce some amazing products made by nice common British people who I am sure are very proud making their airbus wings and f1 cars.

Britain also has produced some absolute crap and some of these companies have gone bust. That’s life and happens in India, China and Taiwan.

Some companies are bought buy foreign interests, companies, investors and guess what, some of these close but most keep going and employ lots of these cheery people happily making their stuff who still get paid and most of the money stays in the country. At the end of the day we live in a global market and want it our way when it suits us but moan when some jobs are lost. Strangely I don’t see too much sorrow at the thousands of jobs HSBC will be shedding this year….

I will never just buy British just for the sake of it if there is something better out there. I guess that’s why I have Shimano brakes and Hope hubs!

I’d look at the Genesis, Soul and add Dialled Prince Alberts to your list. I gota second hand dialled as I was toying with the idea of a hardtail and just sold my fs frame. I’d get a soul if weight was your primary consideration.

I’m sure they’re due a fashion comeback.

Careful – you’ll have people telling you not to look at fashions and trends :wink:

By the time I left the city for my current career I was down to aweful polo shirts and maybe a shirt with no tie on a smart day! I really had no idea. Then again having just done some thinking… brown shoes…. teacher…. talk about stereo type! I shouldn’t be wearing a suit at all! Get me a blazer with elbow patches.

No no no suits like most things have trends and design go in and out of fashion. Se many people wearing double breasted suits? How about tall 4 button single breasted suits? What about very thin steep pointy collars on shirts? See any checked suits these days?

You are buying into “trendy” ideas every time you go into a shop.

I’d have said no to brown shoes because of the rules a few years ago but have a pair of very dark brown shoes that look brilliant with dark navy suits. I only even entertained the idea after seeing some people with it. It looks good, and much better this way than with any of my black shoes.

Well it is and he’s after fashion tips! That’s the wife’s influence so I do apologise. Just been watching this linked off English Cut – super interesting if you like suits….

Super interesting suit programme

You’ll get some good tips on here: English Cut[/url]

Never do up the bottom button (two buttons – do up the top only).
Brown shoes with a light grey or deep navy suit are very on trend at the moment – black shoes and blue suit look dreadful.
All this no white shirt stuff is nonsense – a crisp clean white shirt will always look good.
Learn how to tie a tie – half Windsor suits most collars but make sure you can tie a few different knots.
NEVER wear whort sleaved shirts.
If it doesn’t fit don’t buy iy no matter what the label says on it. Move on and find one that does!

Blimey – all this sleazy / easyjet hatred. I use them loads and think they are fine so long as you aren’t stressed by seating and quick turn around times.
Good routes, cheap and flying a super modern fleet with some of the best pilot training around is fine for me. You can’t argue about the bagage handling agency at the end of the day but that isn’t always the airline’s fault.

What it confirms to me is:

Phone hacking celebs and other public figures == ok
Phone hacking people the public feel sorry for == bad
Politicians jumping on public outrage for “non party political” party politics and gunning for someone who was ok for most of them in the past.
They may not be affraid of the murdoch press now but they are right scared of the rest of the press!

The shit storms (teaching term) facebook causes at school is unreal. Kids making friends with strangers and meeting them. Kids being bullied by people they don’t like at all but are friends with. Kids incriminating themselves on it. I hope to god that by the time I have kids faceache will have vanished.

Go clubbing – wake up on tuesday! Go to weekend (wee12end top of a tall building – amazing views), Watergate (one of the best clubs I’ve ever been to and worth it for the lights alone), Tresor, Panorama bar. All just brilliant if you like that sort of thing.

That’s because selling mortgage pools and securitising them through cayman island spvs (force example) isn’t illegal. If there is s cash fliw abd receivable you can securitise it! Dont forget that for every deal where bankers get paid lots there are teams if lawyers where the partners are billing enormous amounts if money not ti nention the auditors and all the other fiduciaries such as ratings agencies, trustees, agents all making sure the deal works and is above board.

To think Cameron et al actually believe that bankers are the sole problem is naive. They are politicians at the end the day with a core audience to play to and that is the way public perception has been swayed. The only one who I really feel does believe thus is vince cabel who really dies believe his own hype.

@djmb4. You clearly didn’t read my post. As a former banker and now teacher i understand it very well thank you. 5 years working in the debt fiduciary market dealing with new abs mbs cdo deals every day as well as regular plain corporate and government bond issues and debt repackaging programmes I know my stuff. Do you?

Actually dmj that’s the wring type of housing and none if those people caused the problems. If you read my earlier post you’ll know I have a bit of background in this stuff. The housing that caused the problems was sub prime in the us mostly that wad then securitised through mortgage backed securities that were invested in by almost all banks. Sub prime went pop which caused the cash flows and waterfalls ti stop. This in turn caused inter bank lending to stop and bobs your uncle. That’s a bit simple as ut doesn’t cover the credit default swap situation but it had little to do with Jo blogs in the uk.